History & Geography

This week we began our next unit,  Americans Move West.  We began a lap book for this unit and watched a video of the making of the Erie Canal. We have a field trip coming up on April 18 to go to the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center.  Please return permission slips ASAP.  Students will need to ride with parent or an arranged driver.  There is a sign up sheet outside the classroom door for students who need a ride and for parents who have room in their car for additional students.  We will be learning more about Lewis and Clark’s journey west on this field trip. It should be lots of fun and very interesting.

Our  weekly objectives were to:

• Identify some early methods of transportation that people use to settle the West

• recognize the importance of water transportation in the settling of the West

• identify Robert Fulton’s steamboat and idea for the Erie Canal

Science

Science
This week in our Simple Machine domain we learned about inertia, force, power, energy, and what a simple machine is. We had fun exploring different kinds of machines and participating in some demonstrations. The class played Force Charades on Tuesday.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• develop an understanding of quantities associated with energy, movement, and change. • identify the force that causes the machine to work.

• explain that force is the push and pull on an object.

• explain that when work is done, if the effort increases, the distance decreases, and vice versa

 

English Spelling and Writing

In our journals we used the idiom of the week ” Get off your high horse ” .  The class had two spelling assignments and took their final test on Friday.  Our Word Wall words were: they, they’re, their, there. Look for the Spring Break Bingo reading challenge in your child’s take home folder.  Their goal is to get a bingo on both the English and Spanish side.  Two Bingos will equal a special reward when they return from Spring Break.  This is kicking off our April reading challenge for the whole month.

La lectura

This week we finished up our animal reports.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Write speech is based on the reports we made last week.
• Decorate our reports with colors
• Complete our first ever Spanish presentations

This is also a reminder that there is a Spanish bingo side that lines up with the English side that kiddos can also complete over spring break for some extra prizes when we get back.

Las matemáticas

This week we finished up our measurement with feet and inches unit.

Our weekly objectives were to:

• Compare feet and inches
• Complete real world problems using feet and inches
• So what we know on the unit test
• During breaks a lot of our kiddos tend to forget stuff that we just studied, so keeping up on Prodigy is a great way to keep kids refreshed on all those measurement skills to work so hard on the last couple weeks.

 

Specialists:

Art With Ms.Kelly

Dr. Seuss Week: We looked at McElligotts Pool (my favorite) and the students designed and painted their own fun imaginary fish! 

Art with Miss Karen: The students used oil pastel and colorful ink to make a design with their hand print and patterns.

First Day of Spring: The focus was using shapes of letters to draw a bird. The students started with a capital D letter and added shapes to make a bird. They also learned about using chalk pastels to add color to their pretty spring birds.

Japanese Cherry Blossoms: We reviewed some information from their study of Japan earlier this year, and learned about the gift of 3000 cherry trees from Japan to Washington D.C. in 1912. The students used cardboard scraps dipped in paint to create tree branches, and then paint for the blossoms. These beautiful pictures are on the bulletin board at school.

Have a wonderful spring break!